The Dam Against the Pacific -- The Collected Works of Du

Author: Du
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: To leave something behind for her two children, the mother toiled for fifteen years in the French colonial Indochina. Unbeknownst to her, what she exchanged was only a piece of land that was flooded by the tide every year, unable to be cultivated. She painstakingly built a embankment to withstand the Pacific Ocean, yet the tide destroyed all her efforts overnight. But she refused to let her hard work go to waste and continued to fight against an unjust society and the cruel nature. And hope was destined to turn into despair, she was tortured to death by her own struggles. Her son waited for the woman who would take him away, her daughter waited for the man who would take her away. They, as settlers, would all flee the colony... Du, through this deeply moving autobiographical novel, recalls her gentle yet great mother, and another touching "mother" is born in the history of world literature. Oh, dear mother!